Old English Teachers

Old English Teachers

 

 

 

conjunctions push their way into starting sentences

poetry has many of them

starting lines

thank God we use fishing line

rather than fishing sentences

 

the fish would all be offended

if we cast with "ands" or "buts"

 

And they would take one look and swim away.

But another conjunction would just worm its way

 

in to hook us

and send us reeling

with disgust.

 

 

erin-cilberto

4/7/24

Reviews

[Lydia Shutter]

Oh yes, those conjunctions. I remember grading papers with run on sentences. Yet, or, and, for, but.....words that danced on the page with little additional content. I only put up with it for one year, but I certainly remember! Lydi**

[jacob erin-cilberto]

It is a shame we lost a teacher so quickly...after just one year.
I bet you were a good one.
j.

[Lydia Shutter]

Thank you!

[Lorry]

Well I just think.....Will no doubt become am opening line in poetry, judging by the way people use it in every day life, to give an opinion no one asked for or needed to hear in the first place...although it may be quite a leap from saying what you think to typing what you think, but I'm sure they will manage the leap as gracefully as a cannonball gently tapping on your door! 😀
Who would be a teacher these days, eh?
Is it
A...who cares
B...me do want to be teaching please very much, or
C....Mark A, B or C to receive the grade A, B or C! 😏

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Ha ha, thanks, Lorry,
j.

[Pete]

and i thought it was all about the bait. there was a kid's show called schoolhouse rock; one episode had a song and cartoon called 'conjunction junction what's your function'. old english teachers don't die, they have run-on lives like sentences.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I do think I am a run-on sentence, Pete.
Thank you....and I will meet you at conjunction junction.

[John the Baptist]

I must plead guilty to starting sentences with conjunctions on occasion. Sometimes it seems to lend a sense of drama to what follows it. And I mean it.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I do the same, and on purpose. It adds flare to writing if not overused.

[carl]

Being an Old English teacher (retired), I just had to read this one, no if, and, or but about it. "And" who would think of starting a sentence with a "conjunction." Poets can bait a line with anything they please and not be labeled an amateur piscator. "But" I digress. Nice write enjoyed every bit of it. Glad I came by thanks for the post -carl

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Thank you, carl. These words from a fellow English teacher make me smile.
j.

[Ken Simm.]

Ah the problems, the problems. I hope I did it right in this review because I enjoyed the write.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Thank you, Ken...ha ha.
j.

[Soren]

Great advice to the fisherman who wishes to catch fish. If one is fishing, who does not want to catch something? Grammar was always my weakest subject and like a line to fine breaks when the fish is too big. I love the word play in the last stanza, it sent me reeling with a broken line now empty no fish of the other conjunction.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Many fish have been too big for me.
thanks, Soren.
j.

[Fabian G. Franklin]

I thought all old English teachers became editors and simply graduated from red penciling to blue penciling. But when did teachers stop wearing support hose and hair nets; looking like the lunch lady and start wearing black leather mini dresses and stiletto heels? They're so young these days I have kids older than most of them. Alas, I grow old, I shall wear my trousers rolled...listening for the mermaids. I enjoyed. F.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

love those mermaids...and how is their grammar?
Thank you, Fabian.
j.

[Arundass TP]

Excellent theme and writing. Enjoyed reading

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Thank you for your kind words, Arundass...
j.

[Poetic Beauty]

This was definitely a fun read. Oh help with punctuation lol love the part about the fish. Gave me a bit of a giggle

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Thank you, P.B.
j.

[Poetic Beauty]

You are most welcome. It was a funny and lighthearted poem. Good for the soul